{"id":14197,"date":"2020-08-11T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14197"},"modified":"2020-08-11T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:10:33","slug":"mamata-banerjee-seeks-more-ventilators-from-pm-modi-to-fight-covid-19-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14197","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee seeks more ventilators from PM Modi to fight Covid-19 &#8211; kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to send more ventilators and oxygen supply apparatus needed to treat critically ill Covid-19 patients. <\/p>\n<p>Banerjee also urged the Prime Minister, during a video conference, to ensure that the Union government issues guidelines on Covid-19 vaccines to fight the pandemic. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), three Indian vaccines are in different phases of clinical testing at present. <\/p>\n<p><b>Also read: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/reign-of-fear-across-the-country-mamata-banerjee-attacks-bjp-centre\/story-mYBuYFuwVFz4sMBywBVq9L.html\" title=\"\u2018Reign of fear across the country\u2019: Mamata Banerjee attacks BJP, Centre\">\u2018Reign of fear across the country\u2019: Mamata Banerjee attacks BJP, Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe request the Central government to provide us more high flow nasal cannulas and ventilators,\u201d Banerjee, was quoted in a media statement issued by the state government <\/p>\n<p>The video conference was convened by Modi for chief ministers of 10 states, including West Bengal, to discuss the situation arising out of Covid-19 pandemic in the country. <\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday evening, the number of people testing positive  for Covid-19  crossed one lakh and stood at 1,01,390 . he state has around 1,140 patients admitted in various hospitals, whose conditions were stated to be critical. <\/p>\n<p>The chief minister once again raised the issue of dues, which the centre reportedly owes the state, while highlighting the achievements made by the state administration including setting up of a Covid warrior club, Covid patient management system. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state is still to receive Rs 4,135 crore towards GST compensation and overall outstanding dues of Rs 53,000 crore from the central government,\u201d Banerjee said <\/p>\n<p>The West Bengal government had in April come under flak from the two inter-ministerial central teams for the death audit committee and the high fatality rate of Covid-19 patients in the state. The state had later stopped the death audits. <\/p>\n<p>During the meeting she said: \u201cAt the start we had emphasized on death audits but now it is vindicated that comorbidity is an important element in Covid deaths. Eighty-nine per cent of Covid deaths in our state were due to comorbidities like diabetes, cancer and hypertension.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Till August 10, 2,100 patients have died in West Bengal with Kolkata recording the maximum deaths.<\/p>\n<p><!--   section:kolkata mainSection:cities\/kolkata-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/kolkata\/mamata-banerjee-seeks-more-ventilators-from-pm-modi-to-fight-covid-19\/story-OcoYtN4OmljNV9I7vsOQiK.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to send more ventilators and oxygen supply apparatus needed to treat critically ill Covid-19 patients. Banerjee also urged the Prime Minister, during a video conference, to ensure that the Union government issues guidelines on Covid-19 vaccines to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mamata-meeting-private-hospital-owners_292d5c9e-dbe1-11ea-a145-8bf15479dae6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}